M2Crypto SSL memory leaks - fixes or alternatives ??

[adsheehan]

Hi folks,

I notice that M2Crypto (a python wrap of OpenSSL) leaks (haemorrhages)
memory significantly and affects my long running app very badly.

Does anyone know of fixes to this problem?

Does anyone recommmend alternatives to M2C ? e.g pyopenssl.

I notice that Guido Van Rossum has flamed about this in the past but I
am not aware of any resolutions.

Thanks
Alan

[Roger Binns]

> I notice that M2Crypto (a python wrap of OpenSSL) leaks (haemorrhages)

memory significantly and affects my long running app very badly.

Does anyone know of fixes to this problem?

Does anyone recommmend alternatives to M2C ? e.g pyopenssl.

If you control both ends of the connection then you can do what I did and
switch to SSH. The Python Paramiko library implements it really well.
(I ended up doing XML-RPC over SSH).

Roger